I just read this article that postulates that maybe the natural progression of intelligent life culminates in creating and merging with artificial intelligence. This idea is a lot of fun because it gives the universe the opportunity to be full of life, just not how we know it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2024/11/05/ai-has-likely-spread-through-cosmos-says-former-nasa-chief-historian/

After hearing Christopher reference someone in the class making C-3PO multiple times, I figured I would go ahead and take a swing at it. After talking more about that with him and poking around thingiverse for a few minutes, I found the files and a gimbal assembly that can have servos added for movement. Hopefully in the next week or two I will get it running. I am going to try and hook it up to an AI chat or & have it run a TikTok account which I just set up. Say hello to D-3T0! He’s got a different name because I don’t know the copyright laws around that yet. But I will find out! (https://www.tiktok.com/@d3tow1?_t=8qmc2rG1aqV&_r=1)

In China they made a 158 km highway using AI powered bots and also some humans (for loading material into machines.) That is amazing! https://www.facebook.com/share/r/saQZxCqCLsXWykYS/?mibextid=UalRPS

https://youtu.be/ka894z9pNls?si=9PGBqQS3ZLpFL8qj

I just found this article about a college student who is trying to build a small fusion reactor and has only put about $2000 into it. He used Claude 3.5 for a lot of the data processing from the sounds of it. Just a warning, there are so many ads on the website. https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/student-builds-fusion-reactor-using-off-the-shelf-parts-for-under-2000/